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Brad

"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power." - A

About Me

Brad McQuaid was the co-designer of EverQuest, managing the development team from the project's inception until its launch. He later became a founder of Verant Interactive and its Vice President. After Verant's acquisition by Sony Online Entertainment, Brad McQuaid served there as Vice President of Premium Games responsible for EverQuest, EverQuest 2, EverQuest Online Adventures, PlanetSide, and Star Wars: Galaxies. In addition, McQuaid was the company's Chief Creative Officer. McQuaid is one of the most respected online game developers in the industry, featured in numerous articles in publications such as The Wall Street Journal and Time Magazine. PC Gamer named him one of the "Next Game Gods" in their November 2000 issue. Currently, Brad is extremely involved with Sigil's new massively multiplayer online game, co-producing the title with Jeff Butler. By keeping the company small, focused, and game-oriented, he is able to spend most of his time in both design and production -- between he, Jeff, and Donna (Sigil's Office Manager), 'running' the company, while obviously important, doesn't interfere with the creative synergy enveloping the entire company, including design, art, programming, and management.Vanguard is in beta 3 and going strong, releasing this Winter! Check out all of the websites in the Interests section, plus by blog here.For personal information, well, I'm a bit of an introvert, but you can find some stuff on my personal web site.Anyway, things are good and looking up -- my life is great, my project coming along, I have satisfaction on so many different levels. Sure, there are struggles too. But joy and true satisfaction transcend day to day downers.

My Interests

My interests and hobbies include driving sports cars (on the street and track), riding dirt bikes, listening to progressive heavy metal, reading fantasy and science fiction novels, collecting comic books, playing Magic: the Gathering, EverQuest (on the Firiona Vie RP server), RTS and car racing video games, and spending time with my friends and family. You can check out my personal web sites, www.bradmcquaid.com and www.sportandtrack.com and of course my company web sites, www.joinvanguard.com, www.sigil.com and www.vanguardsoh.com.

I'd like to meet:

In this life, I've met so many of my heroes -- the guys from Fates Warning, Richard "Lord British" Garriott, Jim Lee (the comic book artist), Raymond Feist, Terry Goodkind, Roger Zelazny, Stan Lee, John Smedley, my dad (obviously), and so many more. Who is left? Probably several more... maybe some of the people I look up to religously or politically. And then there's all the people I'll meet in the next life and get a LOT of questions answered -- Enoch, Tolkien, and CS Lewis, look out!

Music:

I like progressive heavy metal (Fates Warning, Dream Theater), progressive hard rock (Enchant), neo-classical fusion (Yngwie Malmsteen, Vinnie Moore), jazz-rock fusion (Al DiMeola), lights out jazz (T-Square, Spyro Gyra), and Baroque Classical (Bach, Vivaldi).

Movies:

My favorite movie of all time is the Usual Suspects, but I really like science fiction, action, drama, and comedy. Way of the Gun is up there, as is Office Space, Empire Strikes Back, A Fish Called Wanda, a Time to Kill, and many more (although I do consider myself picky).

Television:

Alias (RIP), 24, Smallville, Stargate: SG1, Stargate: Atlantis, Battlestar Galactica, Enterprise (RIP), the new Doctor Who (please come back!), Numbers, motocross, supercross, and motogp, and just about anything on the military channel.

Books:

My favorite genre is fantasy, including Tolkien, Zelazny, Moorcock, Feist, Goodkind, CS Lewis, and many more. I also appreciate some science fiction, and older Tom Clancy stuff.

Heroes:

God, my Dad, Keith Parkinson, CS Lewis, JRR Tolkien, Ursula K. LeGuin, Roger Zelazny, Jim Lee, Winston Churchill, Richard Garriott..."We have come from God, and inevitably the myths woven by us, though they contain error, will also reflect a splintered fragment of the true light, the eternal truth that is with God. Indeed, only by myth-making, only by becoming a 'sub-creator' and inventing stories, can Man aspire to the state of perfection that he knew before the Fall. Our myths may be misguided, but they steer however shakily towards the true harbor, while materialistic "progress" leads only to a yawning abyss and the Iron Crown of the power of evil." -- J.R.R Tolkien

My Blog

Bunch of Vanguard infoz and The Motocross Des Nations 2007!!!

Lots of cool Vanguard info: The video guide: http://www.vanguardsoh.com/forums/showthread.php?t=70905 The Everything you want to know about Vanguard guide: http://www.vanguardsoh.com/forums/showthread...
Posted by Brad on Sun, 24 Sep 2006 02:31:00 PST

Welcome to my blog re-opening!

I'm not a big blogger, but it is useful and fun, and more and more people are doing it, so here I am.  As opposed to putting a blog on my personal site, I am going to use the blog here at myspace...
Posted by Brad on Wed, 06 Sep 2006 01:45:00 PST

Please don't send me messages looking for dates, etc.

I appreciate the compliments, but I am happily married and on myspace to find friends with similar interests, not relationships with the opposite sex.  Thanks :)
Posted by Brad on Mon, 03 Jul 2006 11:32:00 PST

Vanguard group here on myspace!

Just found out there's a Vanguard group here on myspace -- very cool. Been working hard on Vanguard -- haven't visited this site lately. Also created my own site, www.bradmcquaid.com
Posted by Brad on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST